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Life, Health, Property, Casualty: Canadian Insurance Company Directors and Effective Climate Governance
The insurance sector is important because it provides the financial safety net for many Canadians suffering losses associated with climate impacts. Insurance coverage is the guarantee that policyholder losses will be indemnified; yet climate-related weather events are growing in severity and frequency. Severe weather damage in Canada caused $2.4 billion in insured losses in 2020, […]
Read moreSustainable finance for a safe climate: Perspectives on mobilizing capital for a swift, resilient recovery
Based on opinion data, the interviews and our analysis, the Pembina Institute is making a series of recommendations toward a financing strategy that helps integrate the E, S (and G) in ESG (environmental, social and governance indicators) by enabling private capital to flow to the technologies and projects that can maximize job creation, emissions reductions, […]
Read moreA4S Essential Guide to Valuations and Climate Change
Climate change and business valuations are inextricably linked but quantifying the value of the impact has been a challenge. This guide has been developed to help finance professions bring climate change risks and opportunities into business and asset valuation calculations. The first-of-its-kind guidance offers a five-step framework that enables investment and valuation communities to apply […]
Read moreDirectors’ Duties Regarding Climate Change in Japan
Authored by Dr. Yoshihiro Yamada, Vice Dean of College of Law at the Ritsumeikan University, Dr. Janis Sarra, Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, and Dr. Masafumi Nakahigashi, Vice-President at Nagoya University, the report outlines the three primary duties for directors of Japanese companies: duty of loyalty; duty to be compliant with […]
Read more360º Governance: Where Are The Directors In A World In Crisis?
In 1994, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) accepted a new set of guidelines for board governance as developed in the report “Where Were the Directors?”. Triggered by the mixed response by the Canadian corporate sector to the stresses of the 1990–1991 recession, the development of the guidelines (also known as the “Dey Report”) was meant […]
Read moreSuperannuation Trustee Duties and Climate Change
Noel Hutley SC and James Mack, instructed by Equity Generation Lawyers, have delivered a memorandum of opinion Superannuation Trustee Duties and Climate Change dated 16 February 2021. The memorandum provides authoritative guidance to superannuation fund trustees on how to fulfill their legal obligations with respect to climate change risk. The memorandum updates a 2017 opinion […]
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